הֶרֶג
hereg · slaughter
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2027 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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hereg (הֶרֶג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slaughter”.
The killing of many.
How to say it
he·reg
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Putting many to death.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- slaughter ×3
- like the slaying ×1
- when the killing ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Esther 9:5
And the Jews struck all their enemies with a blow of the sword, and slaughter, and ruin, and they did to those who hated them according to their will.
- Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those being taken to death, and those staggering to the slaughter, if only you would hold them back!
- Isaiah 27:7
Has he struck him like the blow of the one who struck him? Or has he been slain like the slaying of those slain by him?
- Isaiah 30:25
And there will be, on every high mountain and on every lofty hill, streams, channels of water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Ezekiel 26:15
Thus says Adonai YHWH to Tyre: Will not the coastlands quake at the noise of your fall, when the mortally wounded groan, when the killing is carried out in your midst?